Auctions: Michel Siméon, an electric passion

Michel Siméon's collection, auctioned on May 10 at Aguttes in Neuilly, is unusual to say the least.

Died last year at the age of 94, this insurance executive spent his life hunting all kinds of objects retracing the history of discoveries in electricity and communication which are at the origin of modern technologies.

He accumulated Fahrenheit hydrometers used to measure the density of liquids, Ruhmkorff coils to obtain high voltages from a direct current source, Arsonval galvanometers to measure the intensity of currents.

All the mechanisms of these bizarre objects, many of which are still in working order, are the subject of an explanatory glossary at the start of the catalogue.

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“Nothing predisposed Michel Siméon to this type of collection except that he was curator of the Ampère museum in Lyon for at least ten years,

says Pascal, the youngest son of a family of six children who kept in sixty memories...

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